IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Great Bend
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974SD013004
  • User Pedon ID: S1974SD013004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2519
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37215
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 45.3544426
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3286133
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 122N
  • Range: 62W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 1,100 feet south and 130 feet east of NW corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD013—Brown
  • MLRA: 55B—Central Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD013—Brown County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. D. Zavesky and C. J. Frazee.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Udic Haploborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Great Bend
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Great Bend
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1974 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19765
    B2—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19766
    B3ca—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 21.0 fine pores; 21 percent fine lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19767
    C1ca—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 21.0 fine pores; 1 percent fine gypsum threads and 21 percent fine lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19768
    C2—74 to 117 centimeters (29.1 to 46.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; massive, and platy; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19769
    C3—117 to 145 centimeters (46.1 to 57.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; silt loam; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive, and platy; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky; 1 percent fine very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine gypsum threads; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A19770
    C4—145 to 178 centimeters (57.1 to 70.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct and 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive, and platy; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A19771. Few streaks of gypsum crystals.